/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>33716

server's ded now

Here's a link to a newer build that doesn't crash on connect, and some other bugfixes

Win64 only https://mega.nz/#!kxsWgKpD!f5MxvJGYDxWMztGRMaDT4MGydFEayjheWhFApwx_7Vo

i have aids

>>33707

[Gomennasai] Anoko wa Toshi Densetsu. That Girl is an Urban Legend.

It's good

>>33616

so, its risk with magic?

>>33616

Your website is hideous and slow, your dev blog is empty, and your post would make a blue checkmark twitter sycophant shill blush. I'm going to bully you until you post progress on your next game since this one is clearly done

>>33617

Yeah basically. I really hate the RNG mess Risk combat turns into so it's kind of like Hearthstone + Risk but with the garbage luck factors boiled out of them.

>>33618

Lol I am very bad at writing and art, as you can probably guess. Honestly I know it's future-thinking but I'd love to use any money I can get from this game to make a Cthulhu Catharsis 2 that looks really slick.

I only made the website last week and it's kind of a rough draft, but the game definitely needs like a month or 2 to cook. Like I need to fix my multiplayer setup because it's half broken right now haha

>>33619

The art's fine, just keep it all the same style. What problems are you having with multiplayer? You using an engine, libraries, or did the networking yourself?

>>33620

I'm using whatever Gamemaker's giving me. Since I put in the make-your-own-nation mechanic though I'm just trying to figure out how to send the sprites between players. I'm not sure if it's gonna be difficult or not but I plan on trying it out sometime this week. Then I've got:

>put in boats + a raiding mechanic

>put in AI

>put in save/load system

>make up to 5-players work

>polish a lot

And that's basically all the features the game will have, aside from some unlockable cosmetics and Steam achievements/cards. I'd also love to figure out the whole marketing thing because it's really just my 5 friends who like this sort of game who are excited for it.

Being able to sell 500 copies at $15 seems insane to me, but it's what I'd need to justify not having worked at McDonald's all this time instead. Really though I'd be happy with aiming for 100.

>>29841

Can we get the camera going a bit higher so we can see over the character? I get that the point is looking at a cute animu girl, but it detracts from the rest of the game if she's occupying most of the camera space all the time. I did notice that the camera shifted when shooting, but that's really not enough.

Wouldn't it be a better option if you had an "inspect button", like some shitty shooters have to look at your guns, only here it'd be to look at the girl with a closer camera and even changing the controls to rotate the camera around her?

This way, you could appreciate the girl whenever you want but still get a decent camera for combat.

>>32665

Crab bucket mentality, cheering for the underdog, etc could easily explain it.

You also don't specify what your attitude is, it could just be that you're unlikable?

Or maybe, like other's suggest, your game was pretty but had bad gameplay?

Games with unique gameplay are rare, pretty games are not. If someone makes a game that plays specifically how a playerbase likes it, they won't give a fuck about how it looks. If someone makes a pretty game... Hope you like competing with AAA for an incredibly stale market that impresses nobody anymore.

Of course, we don't know what your game is so it's not fair to make these kinds of judgement, so why don't you link it here?

>>29888

What engine did you say you made it with?

>>32328

New idea, use Japanese voice actors for the english dub

>>33063

>your game was pretty but had bad gameplay?

He has no game, notice he said "proposals". He is butthurt his "high quality" ideafagging was shot down, so he came to dump on an actual game.

>>33454

>I'm worried that she won't be up for the entire project or if she is it will be produced too slow

I think she's having difficulty particularly on the drawing. Have you ever gave her some ideas or examples on specific details about the drawing. Sometimes brain storming can be a bitch even for an artist.

hi, bad nonexistent artist here, i can help!

>>33510

At this point I just want some art! Got a list of your art and a way of contacting you?

>>33501

It is literally the concept art, the first draft for what the main model will look like and by consequence the general style the game will have. I've sent her several pictures with elements I'd appreciate noted down.

>>>/blog/629

my trash exists in some of these images. as for contact: lawndeer@cock.li

I can do it for free as long as my name is included in credits.

In spite of work and summertime activities I have too much time on my hands, and may as well stretch my hans.

Email me at worldwander10101@gmail.com pls no bully

>>31806

Thanks. I'm still working on it, albeit very slowly. Hopefully I'll have something for next demo day.

I'll hopefully have something for demo day, but it depends how well it comes together.

I'm still working on this, slowly.

>>31953

I was lucky to have an autistic brother that likes to code, which i fucking hate despite working 6 years as a programmer

My game would end up as a shitty stardew valley ripoff without him

>>32015

Holy shit I hate people like you.

>>32663

I've worked for people like that. They exist in every industry and they are scum. They weasel themselves into managerial positions and feel the need to dictate and talk down to programmers. They feel superior because for not knowing anything about the company's product because they see making it as dirty work for goy cattle. They think they're superior for working in sales and marketing. They're parasites.

>>Save up money

>>Be solo dev / project manager on your game

>>Commission artists to make the assets / use existing assets

>>Use code bounty services if you need any code fleshed out

Well if you're games open source, people can send patches, which i know isn't the same, but it's near enough. If you want to use a chat client, use mumble.

both handcrafted and automated each to some extent

AIML?

I found a norrowind-like convo engine recently but its in JS

>>33095

Thanks anon this was really intresting!

>>33095

cool talk, I'm a lazy unity dev, has anyone built a system like this I could just integrate and plug in my own context/rules/dialog?

>>33095

To expand on this idea, I suggest giving NPCs different "personality" types where they have different things they like to talk about. A motherly NPC, for example, would be interested in conversations about children. A /doomer/ type NPC might be more dismissive of conversations about children and instead, prefer depressing talk.

You could give each piece of dialogue different tags which would allow you to construct different responses, like for example, /pol/-tier talk about sending children off to join the totally-not-nazi army would have tags like "scary", "children", "military" and the motherly NPC would respond to both the "scary" and "children" tags and recoil, "Oh my! That sounds absolutely frightening! Not my kids!"

Just spitballing.

>>33548

Answering my own question, looks like the "Dialogue System for Unity" asset can be used like this.

Reading over the docs, they have variables you can track (the query) and use as conditions (the rules), even barks that can be used as branching conversations too.

Probably not as performant as writing it from scratch though... plus they have so much other shit though with "quests", special "quest conditions", their own shitty UI elements, networking, scene transitions, save systems, and other nonsense that doesn't belong. and I swear every other asset has their own shit implementation of localization that I have to rip apart.

idk why asset devs dump in shit like that when they could just sell it as addons, it just bog down the core dialogue asset when they insert every little request noob devs ask for. It ends up taking way longer to figure out because you have to sift through all that trash.

>>33535

7 Days to Die hit a nice balance of performance and accuracy with its structural integrity. The gist of it is that vertical pillar stability is at maximum, and every horizontal block away from a vertical pillar lowers stability by 1. When stability hits 0 for the material in question, that block collapses. It's consistent enough that a player can understand the math in their head, and learn that they should put down a vertical support every 'x' horizontal blocks when building bridges.

https://7daystodie.gamepedia.com/Structural_Integrity

Interestingly, the infinite vertical stability only counts if the pillar goes all the way to the very bottom of the map. This means you can undermine a structure by digging the dirt under it, which may cause a heavily-loaded pillar to begin shedding its outermost blocks as the stability value of the core pillar decreases.

Performance-wise, it seems reasonable. It should just require the server to keep track of a stability value for every block, and whenever blocks are added/removed, propagate the changes to any adjacent block with lower stability than the current one. Adding a depth limit to the recursive function should prevent a rogue calculation from spreading across the whole map, sacrificing a little accuracy for performance.

Not that i'd implement this anytime soon, gotta get the basics done first.

>>33536

This is almost exactly what I had in mind, though rather than the outermost unstable block collapsing, it would collapse at the point of the most stressed block. Good find.

Alright, i spent a lot of time fiddling with the server/client code trying to set up a new 0.8 protocol, but it looks like the build&shoot master server list might be discarding this server version as it can't recognize it.

The new approach is to change the client identifier from 'o' (Openspades) to '8' (8Spades). Then, we can just run a 0.75 protocol server with the detectclient plugin ( https://pastebin.com/22EWyayS ) and disconnect anyone not using the 8Spades client. This should make server hosting easier to set up.

I've been reading through the build&shoot and openspades forums some more, it looks like a lot of the requested server features may already exist as plugins.

Server-side fog control and persistent map damage are already built into pysnip. Weapon restrictions and damage balances are already available as plugins*. Spawn radius and grenade block damage are basically 1-line tweaks in the server python code. At this rate we should get exactly what we want running on a scripted 0.75 server, without the need for a new protocol.

* Weirdly the server defines the PVP weapon damage, but the client defines the block weapon damage.

Mini update, i've reimplemented the old enemy reveal on intel feature.

Now when your team captures the intel, enemies are shown on the map for 60 seconds.

>>33543

kewl

>>33511

Back to 4chan

Shame about Kenshin, I love both the manga and anime. It sucks more people can't separate the artist from their work, we really live in an age where personal politics are treated as the most important issue.

The good news is fighting games aren't the hardest of things to make. I suggest picking up a good engine (my suggestion is Godot because of how smooth it codes and how easy it is to make collision shapes which you'll need for hitboxes) and start learning your asshole from your elbow in it. I just picked up Godot recently and I feel very confident I could set-up a 2D fighting game in it even with my little experience (though I've worked a lot in Unity before). Mind you, you'll still need to either git gud at art or find an artfag who shares your love of Kenshin.

tl;dr learn an engine and how to code in it, then just like make game.

Learn2code is necessary, but you need to ask yourself: Why you need to learn to code? You need to learn code to make a video game? Great! One problem: Have you made plans yet? Pre-planning is half the work of designing the game. Coding is putting your designs to the test. You given us an idea but literally nothing else.

What are the rules? Can you break down the rules step-by-step that logically makes sense? If you base your game on another game then have you considered studying that game by reverse engineering it's logic and design? By pre-planning the logic design of your game as you study the coding language you will eventually get a better idea of how your game is going to play. Also sometimes your ideas don't go as planned as you code. Sometimes those ideas are used for another game. That's fine. If your fighter doesn't turn out to be mechanically possible but the mechanics are solid then you may want to switch to a brawler and see how that works.

Personally I think Kenshin would work just as well as a brawler if the focus is to master the character's moves. I can see switching stances altering how Kenshin swings. The direction of your swing determines whether or not you use the blunt edge to deal damage and KO/stun enemies or the cutting edge to destroy weapons and objects in the environment to disarm and trap your enemies respectively. Kenshin wouldn't just have health. He would have stamina, balance and momentum. If this is implemented into a fighting game then it will be a Power Stone like arena fighter rather than a 2D one. Let's break down.

-If you run out of stamina then you run out of breath and will have weaker swings. Some attacks won't be available and your senses could dull with the fatigue lowering your window of evading and just guarding.

-Balance determines what moves you can follow up with after a swing. If you attack with another stance that doesn't counter your balance, then you become off-balance. This not only stops your momentum; it leaves you will be open to attack and tripping as you re-balance yourself.

-Momentum is simply how fast, and sometimes hard, your attacks become. As simple as momentum is, it is the most complicated part the player has to manage. You want tPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Isn't Samurai Showdown basically a kenshin fighting game?

>>33269

They share over the top feudal Japan settings and there's actual Kenshin fighting games already.

>>31908

l2c etc. is obvious.

Besides wanting to make a Kenshin game I don't know how much you've considered. I've thought of making a fighting game in the past and here are some of the considerations I've made.

The important things to consider for a fighting game is what do you want, the 100 hit marvel combos, the space controlling "next hit kills" kind, or the mid range 10 hit combo with some level of space control. I know when I thought of the game I wanted to make, it's going to be closer to my favorite fighting game, so studying how that game does things is a good place to start, and thinking about how your game would diverge from those would be the next thing to consider.

When it comes to the game itself, even if Kenshin would obviously destroy a lot of the other characters, you have to be able to balance them out so if someone wants to play as the little kid they have a fair chance against the dude wrapped up like a mummy.

Movesets have to be unique and iconic. Movement can also be unique(dash vs run, giving a "speed" character an airdash or double jump.Making a huge guy walk slower). However it also has to be set clearly so people know how movement works. Mixing Samurai Showdown, KoF, GG, and SF movement together would be terrible.

As for the programming, it's pretty basic to begin with, but gets harder as you get closer to completion, and it's not about programming at that point it's about fine tuning.

left and right are horizontal movement. That's pretty simple. Up jumps. once you have your jump feel set also very easy. Most jumps are parabolic. easy math. setting up bottons for however many attack buttons you want. lmhs? lmh lmh? whatever. getting those to work is easy. programming in frames, invuln, cancelability, hitboxes, knockback etc it all pretty easy and you gotta match that to your animations, and the control of the frames, knockback and cancelability is what allows for combos.

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>best know for credible accusations of hosting child pornography

Because if they said "best know for hosting child pornography" it would be slander.

>>33490

Wasn't it proven when there was an issue with it, it was leftists posting it then reporting it trying to get it taken down?

I mean come on. Which group is better known for pedophilia? Traditionalists who want to go back to the way things were in the 50s and earlier, or the free love, Hollywood worshiping, kike followers who have been unsuccessfully pushing the normalization of pedophilia for decades.

Yeah we have a fair amount of jew-brainwashed weeb lolicons here, but the true pedophiles are almost exclusively lefties.

>>33436

And by the time it became a hit sensation 4chan was already drowning in normalfags who chase greentext screencaps.

>>33381

I get the joke but the first thing I thought of when reading "fascist CP website" was facebook

>>33402

In their minds of course.

>>33348

Your biggest autism is your refusal to use the best tool for the job instead of insisting to use one tool for everything.

I don't know if it's autism, or just that you're not serious. You seem overly worried about tools being good, so much so that you reject them all. You're the common thread here.

JUST

You either need to commit or need to come up with a better idea. Because that's what is going on. You either lack the will to see a project through(fix this immediately if so) or you're hopping between projects rapidly because you're not in love with the ideas you come up with and need to make better ones.

>>30453

Brainlet.

>Engine that opened the floodgates for half-assed shit to flood steam

>Not accessible

>>30453

If you can't figure out Unity after watching some tutorials, you might not be cut out for gamedev.

>>30453

I did it at age 14 with no previous coding experience, toughen up. You have to actually put effort in to learning. Just follow a bunch of tutorials until your competent enough to make changing to the complicated code, then try make your own basic prototypes and simple games.

I spent well over 150+ hours on my first personal project trying to figure everything out and using what the tutorials taught me. Coding requires patience and a willingness to learn.

>>31907

>>31907

>it could be dope

It WAS dope, on the Wii.

>>31909

I remember playing some games on Newgrounds with this kind of art. they exist.

>>24379

Learn to Code

>>33377

c-checked.